Ella Vogelaar

Ella Vogelaar (23 December 1949-7 October 2019) was Minister for Housing, Communities, and Integration of the Netherlands from 22 February 2007 to 14 November 2008, preceding Eberhard van der Laan.

Biography
Ella Vogelaar was born in Steenbergen, Netherlands in 1949, and she was an active youth worker for the Communist Party of the Netherlands during her youth. During the late 1980s and 1990s, she became involved in the trade union movement and joined the Dutch Labor Party. She served as Minister for Housing, Communities, and Integration from 2007 to 2008, but she was fired for her poor media reputation. She committed suicide in 2019 at the age of 69 after suffering from depression for several years.